A gentle breeze rustled through the lush forest, and fallen leaves drifted softly down, flowing away with the river.
The fairies frolicked beneath the lush greenery, their laughter echoing through the woods, enjoying themselves on this vibrant land.
But the next second, the elves suddenly froze in place.
Each elf wore an expression of utter shock, their minds completely blank.
An extremely dense natural energy seemed to emanate from not far away in the forest, quickly engulfing them all.
The sturdy trees had been bent and swayed under the weight of the trees, but the elves standing on them were completely unaware that the branches they were on had broken and cracked.
Under the overwhelming pressure, hundreds of elves turned to look in the direction where Viktor was.
The entrance to 【Forest Paradise】 was completely surrounded by an extremely fierce sea of fire, crackling and burning.
But those flames that appeared out of nowhere seemed incredibly fantastical.
It clings to the forest as if it were sentient, yet it does not extend outwards in the slightest.
Aurelion looked left and right between Cassandra and Victor, her expression somewhat flustered.
The two people in front of her were her teacher and her aunt.
Kasanna was surrounded by flames, her eyes glazed over.
Aurelion remembered that Professor Victor had only said one sentence.
In the blink of an eye, her aunt had fallen into this terrible predicament.
Aurelion quickly explained to Victor:
"Teacher! This must be a misunderstanding!"
"My aunt and the others didn't harm the elves..."
Viktor simply stood there, doing nothing, the single eye of the black raven on his shoulder gleaming with azure light.
It's like they're preparing for something.
He then turned to Aurelion and said calmly:
"I taught you how to use your own strength, but I didn't teach you how to judge things."
"It was my dereliction of duty."
Aurelion was slightly taken aback.
She couldn't quite understand what her teacher meant by those words.
"I'm asking you, why does the Leather family need elves?"
Aurelion quickly replied, because that was what her Aunt Cassandra had just told her.
"For energy, and for the convenience of ordinary people's lives."
"And then what? Have they made life more convenient for ordinary people?"
Aurelion froze, opening her mouth as she listened to Victor's follow-up question.
“But… my aunt said it’s just a lack of energy.”
“Insufficient energy is just an excuse, a fact that Kasanna is unwilling to admit.”
Victor looked down at Aurelian and asked her a question.
"What would happen if these technologies were popularized throughout the empire, or even in the most remote villages?"
"Like that..."
Images flashed through Aurelion's mind.
Those tedious and dangerous jobs will be replaced by puppets that can move on their own, and there will be no more horse-drawn carriages on the streets, but instead magical vehicles that can float in the air.
"Isn't this... even better?"
"Viktor said calmly."
"That would only make the poor poorer and the rich richer, and polarize the empire."
When machines replaced manual labor, it meant that landowners no longer needed to pay the wages of those laborers.
All they need to do is spend money to buy these puppets that can help them with their work.
Because the nobles no longer needed laborers, they only needed to pay the Reiser family a certain amount for machine repairs each year.
The workers' jobs were replaced, and the wages that should have been paid to them became a stream flowing into the Reiser family.
But eventually, the landlords will find that they are also becoming poorer and poorer.
No one could buy the grain produced, and the garment factories had piles of empty clothes.
Because no ordinary person can afford it.
Ordinary people have no jobs, and even eating is a difficult thing.
Eighty percent of the world's capital flows to the Leather family and the nobles who have long cooperated with the Leather family.
This change happened almost imperceptibly.
Based on Victor's words, Aurelion imagined that incredibly desolate scene.
She couldn't accept it for a moment, and a look of fear appeared on her face as she looked at Kasanna.
"How could this be..."
Large numbers of civilians will have no food, no income, and will even have to mortgage their last place to live in order to survive, becoming homeless.
After their last sum of money ran out, they could only slowly face death.
"Of course, you don't need to worry about these things."
"This situation will not occur for a very long time."
Because the Raiser family doesn't have enough energy, they are only in the trial phase, working towards that goal.
"You should have seen the 'people' who live in Tieppo as well."
Viktor's voice rang out softly.
"This place is known as the 'Capital of Advanced Technology,' and similarly, it has advanced medical methods."
"And most of the residents you see with various prosthetics are wealthy people from other countries or other cities."
"The physical disabilities they suffer from due to various reasons make them want to live a normal life, so they have to live in Tiypo, undergo annual physical examinations, and constantly replace their prosthetic limbs."
"Do you know the minimum daily expenses for each of them?"
That was a number that Aurelion could not have imagined.
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